{"id":24120,"date":"2025-07-17T15:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24120"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:53:42","slug":"shiny-sheens-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24120","title":{"rendered":"Shiny Sheens Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are the words <strong>show<\/strong>, <strong>sheen<\/strong> and <strong>shine<\/strong> connected? Let&#8217;s find out.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/29012470582\/in\/album-72157671265431635\" title=\"Ukulele Hooley by the Sea, D\u00fan Laoghaire\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8181\/29012470582_695cbfc272_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Ukulele Hooley by the Sea, D\u00fan Laoghaire\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Show<\/strong> [\u0283\u0259\u028a \/ \u0283o\u028a] means a play, dance or other entertainment; an exhibition of items, etc. It comes from Middle English <em>schewe<\/em> (show), from <em>schewen<\/em> (to show), from Old English <em>sc\u0113awian<\/em> (to watch, look at, examine, show), from Proto-West Germanic <em>*skaww\u014dn<\/em>, from Proto-Germanic <em>*skaww\u014dn\u0105<\/em> (to look, see, watch), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*(s)kewh\u2081-<\/em> (to perceive, observe) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/show#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>sheen<\/strong> [\u0283i\u02d0n] is a thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface; splendor, radiance or shininess. It comes from Middle English <em>shene<\/em> (beautiful, fair, handsome, glorious), from Old English <em>s\u010b\u012bene<\/em> (beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light), from Proto-West Germanic <em>*skaun\u012b<\/em> (beautiful), from Proto-Germanic <em>*skauniz<\/em> (beautiful), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*(s)kewh\u2081-<\/em> (to perceive, observe) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sheen#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the PIE root <em>*(s)kewh\u2081-<\/em> include <strong>caution<\/strong> in English, <strong>choyer<\/strong> (to cherish, pamper, coddle) in French, <strong>cauto<\/strong> (cautious) in Spanish, <strong>cautela<\/strong> (caution, care) in Italian, <strong>precaver<\/strong> (to prevent, take precautions) in Portuguese, <strong>czu\u0107<\/strong> (to feel, sense) in Polish, and <strong>qyr<\/strong> (to observe, look, analyse) in Albanian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/(s)kewh%E2%82%81-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shine<\/strong> [\u0283a\u026an] means to emit or reflect light so as to glow, etc. It comes from Middle English <em>schinen<\/em> (to shine, stand out), from Old English <em>s\u010b\u012bnan<\/em> (tp shine), from Proto-West Germanic <em>*sk\u012bnan<\/em> (to shine, appear), from Proto-Germanic <em>*sk\u012bnan\u0105<\/em> (to shine, appear), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*(s)\u1e31eh\u2081y-<\/em> (to shine, shimmer) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/shine#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the PIE root <em>*(s)\u1e31eh\u2081y-<\/em> possibly include <strong>sheer<\/strong> and <strong>tinsel<\/strong> in English, <strong>schijnen<\/strong> (to shine, appear, seem) in Dutch, <strong>scheinen<\/strong> (to shine, gleam, seem, appear) in German, <strong>skina<\/strong> (to shine) in Swedish, <strong>siljati<\/strong> (to shine, beam, glitter) in Slovenian, and <strong>skaer<\/strong> (glow, glimmer, tinge) in Danish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/(s)%E1%B8%B1eh%E2%82%81y-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>So <strong>show<\/strong> and <strong>sheen<\/strong> are related, but <strong>shine<\/strong> isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a song called <strong>Show<\/strong> by Ado, a Japanese singer. It&#8217;s had 238 million views in a year &#8211; a few more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@omniglot\/videos\">my videos<\/a> &#8211; so she&#8217;s quite popular: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pgXpM4l_MwI?si=pvs3s-nqwcYuSYEE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Blog horizontal --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1685480124\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are the words show, sheen and shine connected? Let&#8217;s find out. Show [\u0283\u0259\u028a \/ \u0283o\u028a] means a play, dance or other entertainment; an exhibition of items, etc. It comes from Middle English schewe (show), from schewen (to show), from Old English sc\u0113awian (to watch, look at, examine, show), from Proto-West Germanic *skaww\u014dn, from Proto-Germanic *skaww\u014dn\u0105 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,100,102,104,107,111,116,128,10,26,29,33,39,44,45,46,202,61,62,64,67,78],"tags":[164,158,138,281,460,461,459,163],"class_list":["post-24120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albanian-shqip","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-italian","category-language","category-middle-english","category-music","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-polish","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-italic","category-proto-west-germanic","category-slovenian","category-songs","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases","tag-english","tag-etymology","tag-language","tag-omniglot","tag-sheen","tag-shine","tag-show","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24125,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions\/24125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}